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SUMMARY:Mergers\, magnetars and multi-messengers - Professor Stephen Smart
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CONTACT:Maria Lopez Celi
DESCRIPTION:Wide-field optical sky surveys are discovering a remarkable di
 versity in how stars merge\, collapse and explode. The powering mechanism 
 for many of these requires a source beyond radioactivity\, plausibly a\nma
 gnetic\, rapidly spinning neutron star. In addition\, the discovery of an 
 electromagnetic counterpart to a pair of merging neutron stars showed that
  gravitational wave sources produce transients that emit photons\nfrom gam
 ma rays to the radio. Other rapid transients\, potentially from merging sy
 stems have also been found. I will highlight these recent discoveries and 
 future potential of all sky surveys and LSST in the coming decade.
LOCATION:ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.
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